[volunteers] Got a commitment from Cavium for meeting space.

[kevin dankwardt]

Thanks for all the info.

There is a large monitor and audio with mic available. I also believe there
is guest Internet but if not I may be able to get access somehow.

I know from personal pain the issues with non-compatibility with
projectors/laptops. Sigh. Thanks for the reminder.

-kevin

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > A further complication:  Need to let speakers know whether provided video
> > connections (if any) are VGA or HDMI or both.   When I advised one of
> > the early 2016 speakers that Symantec's overhead projector is VGA-only,
> he
> > was incredulous and said his Mac laptop had only HDMI.  I said 'What,
> > you haven't bought the converter cable?'  No, he hadn't, and he didn't
> > _want_ to buy one, either, because VGA is obsolete, march of progress,
> > blah blah blah.  So, I ended up sending him one of my own Mac-compatible
> > DisplayPort-to-VGA converter cables via USPS before the meeting, and he
> > gave it back to me at the end of his meeting.
> [...]
> > Basically, every speaker's going to bring a laptop, but some will have
> > HDMI-out only, some will have VGA-out only, some will have both.  Hell,
> > for all I know, maybe some speakers' laptops will have video-out limited
> > to some DVI variant, and that's another whole kettle of fish.  (There
> > are several variants with significant opportunities for 'Gee, I guess I
> > don't have that kind' problems.)
> >
> > Many older LCD screens still have VGA-only input.  Some have DVI-I.
> > Some have both.  Probably other variants.
>
> Data point:  We mostly use laptops at my house, but have kept a few
> monitors around (primarily for servers).  After getting rid of all tube
> monitors around 2006, I've ended up with:
>
> 15" ViewSonic LCD monitor, VGA input only
> 17" Microtek LCD monitor, VGA input only
> 21" ViewSonic LCD monitor, VGA and DVI-I inputs
>
> My prototype new server, being from this millennium, has HDMI video out
> (only).  So, I purchased with it an HDMI-to-DVI-I converter widget, and
> use it with the 21" ViewSonic.
>
> Suspect many other Bay Area Linux people have similar mixes of old and
> almost-new.
>
> Point is, you can no longer just say to someone 'Bring a big monitor'
> and expect compatibility to be routine.  The details of the
> monitor + widgets and of the speaker's laptop both matter.
>
>


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